Transcript Can you tell the ages of the paintings?

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高二 Module 6
Unit 1
A short history
of western painting
Reading
广东 林慧贤
What do we call these things? ----
paintings
Brain Storm
painting
painter
Can you name some famous
painting and painters?
Can you match the painting
and the painters?
Monet
Can you tell the ages
of the paintings?
Who are your favorite painters from China?
Xu Beihong
Qi Baishi
Zhang Daqian
Why do you like them?
…for their painting is very vivid, or
their paintings show the real life of the
nature or the people in the old days….
Comparison of Western and Chinese painting.
Time
Western
Chinese
5th to 15th
century AD
15th to 16th
century
Late 19th century to
early 20th century
Which
do you to
think has a greater
20th century
change?
today Why?
Let’s know some famous
Western artists!
Giotto di Bondone
乔托·迪·邦多纳
犹大之吻
Giotto di Bondone (1267 - 1337). Florentine
painter and architect. He was recognized as the
first genius of art in the Italian Renaissance.
Giotto lived and worked at a time when people’s
minds and talents were first being freed from
the shackles of medieval restraint. He dealt
largely in the traditional religious subjects, but
he gave these subjects an earthly, full-blooded
life and force.
Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)
Michelangelo Bounaroti
(1475－1564)
米开朗基罗
Creation of Adam
Raffaello Sanzio
(1483-1520)
拉斐尔
The School of Athens
Masaccio(1401-1427),
the first great painter of
the Italian Renaissance,
whose innovations in
the use of scientific
perspective inaugurated
the modern era in
painting.
Masaccio的作品：
Madonna with
Child and Angels
Crucifixion
凡高《向日葵》
Match the words with the correct meanings:
[A]
a. realistic
b. abstract
c. existence
[B]
1. state or fact of
existing
2. lifelike, true to life
3. being in thought but
having a physical or
practical existence
d. detailed
4. classical, of old
beliefs
e. religious
5. accurate, minute
6. sincere to believe in
f. traditional
a god or gods
天使报喜
织锦画
圣母与圣婴
Compare the two paintings
《圣母子》中世纪
《蒙娜丽莎》文艺复兴
Gods are painted
People are painted.
赛艇--局斯塔夫·卡耶博特
莫瑞桥--阿尔弗莱德·西斯莱
蓬图瓦兹. 埃尔米塔日的坡地
--卡米耶·毕沙罗
戴帽的自画像--塞尚作
被称为”现代艺术的起源”
Fast reading
1. What’s the main idea of the text ?
The style of Western art has changed a lot
with time going by.
2.How many styles of Western painting are
mentioned in the text? What are they?
Four. They are:
The Middle Ages, The Renaissance,
Impressionism and Modern art.
Skimming
1. What were the artists interested in
from 5th to 15th century AD?
Creating _______
respect and ____
love for God.
2. How did Masaccio paint his
paintings? He drew
things
perspective
in__________, whichrealistic
makes pictures
very _______.
3. Why did the impressionists have to
paint quickly?
Because the natural light _______
changes
quickly, they had to _____
paint quickly.
Scanning
1. Which of the following statements is
true?
A. Paintings in Middle Ages were very
realistic.
B. Western art has changed a lot since
the 5th century.
C. Impressionist paintings were painted
mainly indoors.
D. Modern art began in the Renaissance.
2. At first most people hated the
impressionists’ style of painting,
because _____.
A. their painting were very abstract.
B. their painting were very realistic.
C. They broke away from the
traditional style of painting.
D. their paintings were very ridiculous.
3. In the Renaissance, painters___.
A. Painted religious scenes in a more
realistic style.
B. focused more on religion than on
humans.
C. began to paint outdoors.
D. returned to classical Roman and
Greek ideas about art.
4. ____discovered how to make
paintings look more real by using
perspective.
A. Giotto di Bondone.
B. Masaccio.
C. Claude Monet.
D. Pablo Picasso
5. What does the text mainly tell us?
A. How religious painting developed.
B. How oil painting developed.
C. How impressionist painting
developed.
D. How western art developed.
Detailed Reading: True or False
1. Western art has changed very little
over the last seventeen centuries. F
2. Painters in the Middle Ages painted
mainly religious subjects. T
3. Paintings in the Middle Ages were
very realistic. F
4. Renaissance painters tried to paint
things in a realistic way. T
5. Two important discoveries in the
Renaissance period were oil paints
and drawing in perspective.
T
6. Impressionists painted their pictures
mainly indoors. F
7. At first people did not like the
impressionists’ paintings. T
8. Modern art began with the
impressionists. T
Listen to the tape and fill in the chart:
Ages
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern
Time Artist Feature
Ages: Middle Ages
Time: 5th to 15th
century AD
Artist: Giotto
Feature: Religious,
realistic
Ages: the Renaissance
Time: 15th to 16th
century AD
Artist: Masaccio
Feature: perspective,
realistic
Ages: impressionism
Time: Late 19th to
early 20th
Artist: not mentioned
Feature: Not detailed,
ridiculous
Ages: modern art
Time: 20th century to
today
Artist: not mentioned
Feature: controversial,
abstract,
realistic
Discussion of the text structure
What is the text structured?
It is a historical report. The first paragraph
introduces the topic and the theme of the text
and then state what the rest of the text will
be about. The rest of the report presents the
information in chronological order and
relates this to the them of the change in
artistic style reflecting cultural change.
Now can you tell which period the
following pictures belong to?
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Impressionism
Modern art
Now draw the history of western painting:
Middle
Ages,from 5th
to 15th century.
Modern Art: from
20th to today
The Renaissance:
from 15th to 16
century
Impressionism:
late 19th to early
20 century
The style of Western art has changed
__________,
many times while Chinese art has
changed less
________.
often Art is _________
influenced by
the way of ___
______.
life and beliefs
During the Middle Ages, the main ____
aim
of painters was to _________________
represent religious
themes. Artists were ___________
interested in
creating respect
______ and _____for
God.
love
In the Renaissance, people became
_______
less on
focused more on _______and
religion
_______. Artists tried to paint ______
humans
people
and ______
____.
nature __
as they really were
Masaccio used __________
perspective in his
paintings which made people convinced
________
they were ______________
looking through a hole in
the wall __
at a real scene.
In the late 19th century, Europe
changed a__________
great deal from a mostly
__________ society to a mostly industrial
________
agricultural
one. The ____________
impressionists were the first to
paint outdoors
________. They had to paint
______ and their paintings were not __
quickly
as
______________
detailed
as those of earlier painters.
Today people accept _____________
impressionists’
________ as the beginning
_________ of _______
paintings
modern
_______.
abstract Some modern art is
_______while
some is ___.
realistic
art
Discussion
Work in pairs:
What styles of painting there will be in
the future?
Homework
1. Look for more information about
paintings in
http://tu.tom.com/list/culture.html
2. Read the text more after class.